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Volume 4 · Honest HereticsLesson 40About 22 minutes

End-Times Predictions

How many times have you been told the end was near?

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The center · Mark 13:32
32“But of that day or that hour no one knows—not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

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A war breaks out, an earthquake hits, a new leader rises, and someone says it again: these are the last days. Preachers draw charts, books name a year, and the headlines are read as clues. Jesus did speak about the end of the age. The question is whether he ever gave anyone a date, or told anyone to look for one.

If you have heard "the end is near" your whole life, you're not imagining the pattern. For nearly two thousand years, people have named the day, and every named day has passed. Some sold their homes. Some gave away their savings. Children grew up afraid of a date. And the man they were quoting said plainly that no one knows.

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A contradiction
Setting dates for his return, and reading the news as a countdown, contradicts the plainest thing he said about the end: no one knows the day or the hour.

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